Under The Walnut Tree

I’ve planted hundreds of walnuts…....had one grow to about a foot and the young lad ran the lawnmower over it despite the flourescent green wooden stake beside it. I now keep the seedlings in pots.

thanks for the link albeit I will long be dead before my trees are big enough to give out some shade

Cheers

-- Central northish Ontario

making a living from trees, I feel obligated to put back more, then I use.

Desertjed….......you hit the nail on the head. I give away lots of trees and the reforestation of this place (in some spots) and the cottage is just one more hobby of mine.

-- Central northish Ontario

there are always 1000 little seedlings popping up under our maple tree. But I’ve never looked under the walnut to see if anything has survived the squirrels.

-- - Debbie, SW Ontario Canada (USDA Hardiness Zone: 5a)

Take the nuts before the squirrels get them. I push the nut more then halfway its diameter into a pot of soil, then put chicken wire over the pot to keep that vermin out it. That said, it is often the squirrels that do some re-forestation, burying the acorns and walnuts and forgetting where they buried them.

Seems to work. Funny thing but theres a rabbit here, probably quite a few rabbits that chew my seedlings in the winter…...........they never chew the walnut, they much prefer the expensive Japanese Maples.

-- Central northish Ontario

Yah, come to think of it I never saw any seedlings from our HUGE and very loved, Black Walnut tree. It would make sense that you would have to get the nuts BEFORE the squirrels got to them … but what a battle that would have been!!

Me, I LOVED the smell the tree gave off. I always knew summer had arrived when I could walk out our front door and smell that great big wonderful tree.

Kind of silly, but I also felt like she protected our house and family from harm … her canopy arched well over our two story home.

-- "A perfect garden is just a garden to be in-perfection. Mornings to work on it and evenings to pause and look at it." Southeast Michigan, Zone 5a/5b

we had a “clump” of 3 or 4 large (really large) walnut trees behind our house when I was growing up.
We had a swing tied to the one and a hammock tied to the other… and yes, they were our giant protectors.

The tornado of ‘79 took them down. I miss them. Filled with memories.

-- - Debbie, SW Ontario Canada (USDA Hardiness Zone: 5a)